Healthy Spot

After extensive research i decided to pay a visit to this store. I live in Valencia and the drive is quite long, but i must stay that it was definitely worth it. I got great customer service and the sales people are very knowledgeable. I was able to pick out a good food for my puppy who was sick from the previous food that he was on. He is now doing better and eating 100% organic. The store is clean and chic, and they offer a variety of services for you dog. I will definitely be returning to this store!

I was researching for a pet store that sells organic dog products, maybe with a great recomendation for a dog trainer and groomers. Along my way I passed Healthy Spots website and I was amazed. I had to go in personally to check the place out myself, and I loved it. The store sells top of the line organic food, dog products, groomers on sight and puppy day care as well as puppy training with a great dog trainer. I immediately booked Layla (my puppy) for the puppy training, and made an appt with the groomers. I must say I was content in every way. The employees there are very nice, the owners are cute;-)and the prices are great. I could tell the employees didn't care about just making the sale, they cared about me walking off a happy customer. I will never shop anywhere else but this store! I love it! Layla was so happy and I can tell she enjoyed seeing the other dogs. This place is clean and when you walk in it doesn't smell like dog food, or crap it smells cleaner then most clothing stores. You will enjoy going to this store. You will not regret it, and if you do you must have some serious issues. Make your dog happy and give him a longer life. Go to Healthy Spot.

I subscribe to La Confidential and Brentwood mags, kept seeing blurbs on this store and finally decided to check it out today. Just like the pics in the mags, the store is very posh and eco/customer friendly (separate restrooms for male/female, back-lot parking, and they even carried my 25lb dog food bag to my car.) But what really awe-inspired me about this store was the doggy adoptions (Sundays). To be frank, I purchased my dog at a store over 4 years ago without knowing all the ins and outs of puppy mills, etc. But since having my dog, I have become vegetarian, shop mostly organic and am very much into animal rights.

So Healthy Spot converts their doggy day care to have over a dozen adoptee-dogs run cage free waiting to be adopted. It was pretty heart breaking to hear all the stories of the dogs that were waiting to find homes. But it was pretty wild to see all these dogs having fun in a pseudo-grass park seeming to forget their worries, if just for today... I saw a family adopt a dog and I now understand what they meant by Kodak moments...

I talked to one of the owners and asked why he decided to open HS, figured they might be some spoiled kids wanting to add more $$ to their finely polished wallets. But against my somewhat-jaded beliefs, I learned that before the store opened, if he had a $20 bill, he'd spend $15 of it on his dog and the other $5 on food. Baffled, I asked him why. He simply said, "because my dog's love is priceless." No matter how bad his day is, the moment he sees his dog, nothing else seems to matter. Anyway, he went on a bit but I felt his genuineness and he definitely wears his heart on his sleeve. He felt he was born to really fight for something much bigger and grander in scale. That's some sort of customer service I never experienced in this land that thrives and fights based on customer service.

I'm not really into the internet opinion community but I was really taken aback by this store and wanted to hear reviews about this store, googled it, and ran into this site... and from my experience today, I felt that they deserved my honest feedback. I never once felt that the owner was trying to push to sell something but felt more like I was at a dog rights' community event. I was surrounded by friendly dog lovers and people just waiting to stir up conversation. I'm sure the cool colored ambiance helps the mood but it's almost as if everyone is in some state of euphoria.

Since becoming a dog lover, I can completely relate to the owner and motives of this store. For once, I actually believe Healthy Spot is a store striving for eco-friendliness, educating the public, fighting for dog/animal rights, and not just doing it to join the ever so popular Go Green band wagon. I was pretty touched and from what I heard, saw, but more importantly, felt today, I definitely give the green light. (and as a consultant, that's not very often)

In this age of internet and non-invasive human interaction, Healthy Spot is as old-school as you can get. But just like stepping out of a sweat-filled 200 sq ft spinning class, it was a breath of fresh air.